Product Manager, AI Foundations Vanta · US · ai​/ml

Position: Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations Vanta · US · ai/ml $243k–286k/yr $243k–286k/yr ● New
Location: Northern

# Staff Product Manager, AI Foundations Vanta This  Staff Product Manager role oversees the core AI infrastructure and evaluation systems for a security and compliance platform. You will build the foundational agent harness and quality standards used across all company products.### What you’d own
* Agent harness strategy and roadmap
* AI quality and evaluation stack
* Golden datasets and automated evaluators
* Shared capabilities for internal product teams### Who it’s forA fit if you...* ✓8+ years of experience in platform, infrastructure, or technically deep products* ✓Hands-on experience building with LLMs and understanding evaluation/observability signals* ✓Ability to hold your own in deeply technical design discussions with senior engineers* ✓Systems thinker who can reason about how infrastructure choices compound across multiple teams

Not for you if...* ✗You prefer a clearly defined roadmap over navigating high ambiguity in a fast-moving AI space* ✗You prefer working on customer-facing UI/UX rather than backend foundations and internal tooling* ✗You are looking for a role with a fixed, pre-determined answer rather than leading with process### Reading between the lines
* The phrase 'turn those answers into shared foundations' implies you will be acting as an internal platform provider to other product teams.
* The requirement to 'drive adoption without becoming a gatekeeper' suggests a high degree of influence is required to ensure other teams actually use your tools.
* The mention of 'living in agent traces' implies a heavy emphasis on data-driven discovery and debugging over purely theoretical planning.

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Apply nowPosted Yesterday Seniority Staff Salary  $243k–286k/yrLocationUSProduct areaai/mlTypeFull-time### Role typeAI Native Technical PM Platform PM### Benefits Health Dental Vision Equity
401k Retirement MatchPTOParental Leave Wellness Home  Office Stipend Full job description### About Vanta See all roles →Vanta is a trust and compliance automation platform that helps companies get and maintain security certifications like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR by continuously monitoring their infrastructure and automating evidence collection. It integrates with AWS, Git Hub, Google Workspace, and dozens of other tools to check compliance posture in real time, cutting the time to get a SOC 2 from months to weeks.

Vanta raised a $150M Series B in 2022 at a $1.6B valuation and serves thousands of startups and mid-market companies for whom certifications are table stakes for selling to enterprise customers. The platform is product-led and has built a strong reputation for simplifying a process that was historically painful and expensive.